Want to use VNC with Win XP? Think again!

[Nemesis77]

<< Microsoft's XP license agreement says, "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."

That means using any software other than Microsoft's to view an XP desktop from Windows 2000 or any other operating system would violate the company's license agreement, in case you care. >>




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[dionx]

damn MS.

 

[notfred]

There's gonig to b 900 people in here complaining about MS's unfair license agreements. Ironically, 75% of these people had XP installed the same day as it went gold, and never cared about the license anyway.


I'm still runnnig win2k, with VNC set up to connect to my linux box.

 

[Ronstang]

I don't care what their license agreement says, I will use VNC if I so choose. Actually I tried VNC, and Remote Desktop is a lot better for my application so I use it instead anyway.

 

[Nemesis77]

<< I don't care what their license agreement says, I will use VNC if I so choose. Actually I tried VNC, and Remote Desktop is a lot better for my application so I use it instead anyway. >>



Problem is that Remote Desktop doesn't work on Linux for example. Want to access XP-system from non-MS OS? No can do.